Project Life Tip: Including Social Media

On this 2011 album, I’ve been working between the current weeks and the past months. I’m making progress and now February is finished! It’s SO exciting seeing our year come together, I love that this is basically a time capsule and though all of this stuff seems so mundane right now, 20 years from now we will cherish these bits and pieces of our lives from the past.

Here is the full spread for February in review.

I am relying heavily on twitter and facebook updates to help me put these past months together. Its not too difficult, except for the fact that we didnt take many, if any photos at all. But thats okay, the stories matter too. Im so thankful for this project, looking at this photo-less month is really putting into perspective just how important this is. I feel like our lives would continue passing us by without any record or documentation.
Im also able to use up my ridiculous stash of random supplies. They are helping with the visual aspect of these photoless months. This pocket has an email conversation that Nicholas and I had over facebook. It is really sweet and depicts just how crazy we are about each other so I had to save it. I was able to just click> File:Print to get a perfectly sized print out. I just trimmed it and put it in a pocket.

Check this out! There is no good way of saving status updates from twitter or Facebook on the web by simply copy and pasting. And when you screen capture, it is so very small that you can’t read it when printed out. Then if you stretch it to make it bigger, it gets pixelated of course. SO, when you have something you want to save, zoom into your screen! You can do this on any computer, there should be an option in the menu of your browser, something like > View:Zoom in. On my mac I just press command and + to zoom in. Then I take a screen capture with a relly neat app called “skitch” and print it right out.

On my January spread I included twitter statuses that reminded me of how I started 2011 off with a serious cold. In the picture below, I am showing an example of the different size results in inches. The top set is how big they would be if I just screen captured and printed them out. The result is not very easy to read, we’ll especially have difficulty trying to read it when we are old and gray! The set on the bottom is how big they are after Ive zoomed in on my web browser 4x. (meaning I clicked zoom in 4 times on my web browser.) Try it out! Unfortunately I didn’t realize this until after I had already printed these out for January. But now you know! : )